When I was younger, I thought that medication was a terrible thing. I wouldn't use drugs for when I was sick, and I instead relied on natural alternatives like eating foods rich in vitamins. I now know that
gorging yourself on vitamin C doesn't actually do anything to help get over a cold, and pseudoephedrine is freaking awesome! I'm still sick, but a good
portion of the symptoms are masked. That said, I still took Friday off and slept a good 12 hours to recuperate, though it was made more difficult due to having to attend two birthday parties. However, those
parties were awesome, regardless. Still sick, but getting better.

CISPA not only passed the Republican controlled House, but the freedom hating Republicans were able to add a few more addendums to make it even worse than it
already was.

It turns out that just getting people to think more analytically, even if the topic has nothing to do with religion, will make them
less religious. Good to know.

Ireland is planning on introducing a law that would make it illegal to withhold information about people raping children, even if it was said during a confessional. Why this isn't already a law, is beyond me,
but it's a step in the right direction. However, Bill Donahue of the Catholic League claims that this bill is a war on
Catholics and some Catholic priests have publicly stated that they will violate this law if it passes! Send them to prison with the rapist!

It's probably a mixed message if a Christian school gives a talk on how bullying won't be tolerated, and then refuses to let a
gay person speak.

Loudoun County, Virginia just can't seem to get it right. Last Christmas, in order to avoid lawsuits, they allowed any group who desired to do so to put up memorials on public property. They were expecting
nothing but Christian displays, but what they got were mostly atheistic displays. So, to prevent that from happening again, they're trying to limit secular displays and only put up a basic manger scene. Who could
have a problem with that? Well, everyone who pays taxes and values the separation of church and state. They're setting themselves up for a very expensive lawsuit which they will most certainly lose, all at the
tax-payers expense.

It turns out that if the only thing you eat for several days is sunlight, you'll starve to death.

Multi-millionaire Joel Olsteen, who made his fortune by convincing his church attendees to hand over their hard-earned money for nothing in return, visited a public school. He claimed that the visit was purely
secular, but he lied. I can tell you're shocked. A Christian lied? But they're not supposed to do that! Not only did he lie, but he even got the school's administration to lie for him. Joel Olsteen's wife read to
children about Jesus from their Christian children's book and then left several boxes of the books for children to take home. Using a public
institution to proselytize to children is illegal, and lying about it just makes it worse.

Here's a trailer for a documentary on how the Texas school board is revising history to fit their Conservative agenda.

Got my new Eve 6 album Speak In Code last night. Here's the video for the first single, Victoria. A rather different sound than their early stuff, but
still looking forward to seeing them in concert again.

Boy oh boy, the Catholics were not pleased about this one! Fox News might have to have a war on it!

The guys over at The Atheist Experience know how to handle annoying emails from annoying Christians.

If Republicans were half as interested in upholding the Establishment Clause of the first amendment in schools as they are violating Roe v. Wade, are nation's youth would be a lot smarter, and we'd have
fewer abortions.

A school teacher at a Catholic school was fired because she was using in vitro fertilization to have a baby, a common practice among normal people, but according to Pastor John Kuzmich, the teacher is a
"grave, immoral sinner!"

At dinner last night an older man was talking to his server in a rather loud voice. He was made fun of my long hair, and the started drilling the server on which church she went to and talking about how
awesome his bible was. I guess he thought a good Christian is one who conforms to the norms of society. Too bad he didn't know that Aryan Jesus has long hair!

Connecticut passed a bill that would make it illegal for cops to arrest people simply for filming them! I hope this catches on to
the other 49.

The CIA wants easier access to shooting missiles at people in foreign countries. In fact, now they want to blow up possible terrorists even when they can't give any confirmation as to
who they may be killing. I guess they are thinking that
other countries love us too much!

Here's a way to get Muslim civilians on your side, change your military symbol to the
Crusader's cross!

Yet another church leader tells his parishioners
how to vote. Thankfully, another study
shows that religion is on a decline.

It's more likely to a be an all-powerful magician, than the misdiagnosis of the initial condition

Feeling: Happy

2012/04/20

Big news for NES gamers! I've added a huge cheat archive to my NES Hacker Wiki which includes a simple download to get all of the
cheats on your emulator!

Most of my pixel art will now properly display if you're viewing my web site with a Mozilla browser. I've added tags to turn off bi-linear filtering.

DNA and RNA store the genetics of all known life on Earth, but those two molecules aren't the only possibilities available. Scientists have come up with six other molecules that could just as easily be used
to store genetic information.

The Vatican is cracking down on a group of nuns. Not because they're raping children, but because they're not focusing enough on abortion and euthanasia, and they might even be backing some of the things
President Obama says, GASP! At least they have their priorities in order.

Brad Seng is a die-hard Christian, anti-choice advocate, and suppressor of sex education. He goes
to public schools and tells children that they are dirty and gross for engaging in sex before marriage. He doesn't tell them to practice safe sex, he doesn't tell them to explore their sexuality, he tells
them to vilify everything to do with sex that isn't between a married man and woman. Tax money well spent.

Couple wants their security deposit back because they're rented house turns out to be haunted!

Doctor Richard Dawkins debates Cardinal George Pell. The format is rather annoying, as the crowd claps through most of it, wasting a lot of time. Dawkins
isn't the best debater of religion, but I still think he outdoes Pell, who is just awful. As for the science aspect, Pell is clearly out of his element, getting even basic scientific facts dead wrong. Dawkins
has some followup in this radio program.

Sex in the natural world isn't as simple as human gender roles try to make it out to be, and here are some cartoons to
demonstrate it.

There is a popular thought experiment in philosophy called the brain in a vat. The idea is that it's possible that we're a brain in a vat which is
being fed fed sensory stimuli of a simulated reality. While this seems highly unlikely, the fact that it is a possibility means that it's never safe to claim for certain that we can truly know the nature of
reality. Everything that we believe to be real could simply be a computer feeding us false information. This thought experiment was explored in movies like The Matrix and to some extent, The Truman Show. Some
people deny this possibility by simply stating as fact that they have absolute knowledge of reality. Young-earth creationist Eric Hovind, seen here arguing
with Thunderf00t, is one of those people. His argument is seriously flawed due to his inability to grasp this basic thought experiment. It's also quite disconcerting how much he uses dishonest practices
like trickery and telling the audience that Thuderf00t has changed his mind when he clearly has not, thereby violating his dear Commandments not to commit false testimony.

My girlie caught me off guard on Saturday with a huge surprise birthday party! She is clearly not to be trusted! It was entirely amazing, and about 30 of my friends were there to celebrate.

Sylvia Allen is a Republican senator of Arizona, who also believes that the Earth is only 6,000-years-old. Virginia Foxx is a Republican Rep of North
Carolina, who thinks it's reckless for people to take out student loans to get an education.

Much like the Catholic church covering up its members raping children, the US military has been covering up the rape of service women. Several women who have been reporting sexual assault have been diagnosed
with personality disorders and discharged. The US army has also added tighter
rules to its dress-code, possibly in reaction to the new law which allows
homosexual service members. Because as we all know, if a male soldier has earring, the terrorists win.

SOPA and PIPA failed, so the government, lobbied by the entertainment industry, tries again with
CISPA.

Christians have been advertising their "Get Over It" campaign which tries to fix homosexuals from the gay, but they been receiving a lot of deserved flack, and their ads
are being pulled.

I'm disgusted by seeing a picture of a woman in a niqaab, because I don't think women should cover up their bodies to display their devotion for their
husbands. Some faculty members at Thompson Rivers University in Canada are also disgusted at seeing a picture of a woman in a niqaab, but not because she is covering up her body because she is the property of
someone else, but because she is also holding underwear! *GASP*

Sanal Edamaruku exposes the truth behind a Crucifix dripping "holy" water as drainage from a local sewer grate. Rather than be rewarded for uncovering the truth, he is
accused of blasphemy! Some people just prefer to believe in a lie.

Students of DeKalb High School, Georgia will be graduating, not in their school, not in an arena, but in the
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. The same church where pastor
Eddie Long had sexual relationships with five five of his young male parishioners.

Why are Fox News viewers consistently ranked the least well informed? Mostly because they
lie to their viewers.

For a long time in the US, people were only supposed to be strip-searched when they were suspected of carrying concealed contraband. This was due to the 4th amendment to the US Constitution which says that
people are not to be subjected to unnecessary searches of their privacy. However, the US Supreme Court, ruling out of fear, decided that safety is more important than individual freedoms. Now, law enforcement may
strip search -anyone- who is arrested, regardless of the crime, and regardless of whether they are suspected of having concealed
contraband. Taken downtown for an outstanding parking ticket? Strip search. Got caught littering?
Strip search. Little by little, all of our personal freedoms are being chipped away.

Awhile back, Christopher Hitchens debated his more conservative brother on the topics of the Iraq war and God. Christopher is his clever and
confrontational self, his brother Peter Hitchens has a few good shots, but over all his arguments are flawed and tired. For example, he's still using the "atheists can't have morals" argument, as well as "the
Christian God exists because we can't explain where the universe came from" argument from ignorance.

SPOA and PIPA give birth to the latest bill that would allow corporations to control what parts of the Internet you have access to, this time with the added benefit of being able to
spy on you as well.

Republican Senator Olympia Snowe says that there is no such thing as the Conservative's
war on women. No, it's not on women, it's just on women's contraceptive, women's
right to abortion, women's health, and women's freedoms. But not on women specifically.

You know you're a good Christian when your watch costs more than the average person's car. You know you're a great Christian when you try to
cover it up!

If your phone provider is AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, they are selling your tracking information to law enforcement. The really annoying part is, because the police is funded by the taxpayers, you're
actually paying to have yourself tracked by the police, which means you're ultimately
paying the phone company to sell you out to the police!

What would happen if we tried to inject the Young-Earth Creationist model into the standard Geological model?
Speaking of a Young-Earth, have you ever seen that 101 evidences for a Young-Earth? Well, here is the
rebuttal of all 101 bullshit claims.

Sadly, we knew climate change was a reality back in 1982, and as we've gained a better understanding of it, the evidence keeps agreeing that humans are
the cause.

I had my car a whole day before noticing the draining coolant. I got it back to the body shop and it turned out to be just clamp tat wasn't tightened down properly, but it was still annoying. Still, I'm glad
to finally be driving like a big boy again!

Martin McVeigh, a priest, accidentally showed 16 pornographic pictures of men to a group of children who were receiving their first
communion. After the mistake, he still had the gall to ask them to give some of the money they received for their communion to the church.